Can I apply for an appointment at a US consulate in another country, other than the US Consulate located in my home-country, to get my O-1 visa interview?
Hi; I have a question: I am a Turkish citizen and I am currently residing in Turkey. I received my O-1A approval from USCIS in July, and I booked my visa appointment for Sept. 22nd, with the US Consulate in Ankara, Turkey. A few days later I received a notification that says that my appointment was cancelled due to COVID Measures! Then I took another appointment for October 22nd, and I was told that there is no guarantee that my O-1 visa appointment will be kept in October. It is being kept right now, but I was told that it can also be cancelled again, later in September-October time frame. So there is a huge uncertainty! And I am losing several months just to get a new interview date if the current interview is cancelled due to COVID measures.
The good news is that, as of August 12, the United States Embassy in Ukraine has started certain categories of visa processing including O visas. So my question is: Can I take an appointment from the US Consulate in Kyiv, Ukraine and have my O-1 appointment there? I guess I have to do a new DS160 and apply for an appointment there. But is this possible? Can there be a more general rule that I am not aware of, or specific restriction on my O-1 approval that restricts from which country/countries I can apply to the O-1 appointment? I'd appreciate any ideas or information on this matter. Thank you!
---- from the US Consulate web page, in Kyiv, Ukraine -----As of August 12, the United States Embassy in Ukraine will resume certain nonimmigrant services, including: F, M, certain J categories (alien physician, government visitor, international visitor professor, research scholar, short-term research scholar, specialist, secondary school student and college/university student), C1/D, E, I, O, and P visas, and certain immigrant visas including IR1, IR2, CR1, and CR2......
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